Anderson Valley Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Boonville, California USA

Pours a dark brown color with frothy tan head. Aroma is light chocolate and light toasted malt. Also has a slight buttery nose to it so I’m guessing this bottle is past it’s prime. Taste is light chocolate and coffee with a mild hop finish. Finish is a bit too bitter for my liking. Meh.

2.99$ Are you kidding me? You dudes in the states got it lucky, man. If I ever see this up here it will be no less than 8.99$. I spent over 400$ on beer in Vegas and only 1$ gambling - and that was my wife trying to hit it big after taking a squirt.
I think this was the 4th beer of the night. Poured out ink black with a small brown head that lives on as a ring and leaves lots of silty, spotty and ropy lacing. Sweet! Sweetness wafts into my nose. Incredible from first smell - this stuff is heaven in a bottle, can’t wait to taste it. I’m cheating and tasting now.... (load in my pants). Smooth milk chocolate rules the day on aroma. Soft roasted malts. Somehow as this warmed it retained that COLD chocolate milk smell. Slight nut (maybe) and a very hidden, late arriving spice that might come from the hops... or not. Great, smooth chocolate taste, a bit of light bitterness in the finish. Straight forward on the taste and little complexity. Perfect! Why f up such a savoury elixir? One dimensional is all you need because that chocolatey taste is to die for. Well carbonated, very full bodied, creamy mouth feel, mild bitter finish with a coating of chocolate. It is rare that a beer impresses me instantly and continues all the way through. I love chocolate beers that lack bitterness.

I paid $1.69 for a 12-oz single. Holy smokes! I was away from the computer when I reviewed this beer on paper. I couldn't wait to get back here and post this one! Black- inch of fluffy, creamy looking brown head. Light, only when held up to a VERY high wattage bulb, will trickle through here. One gorgeous brew. Sweet chocolate scent. WOW! Just about knocks me on my ass it's so good! Perfectly balanced. Cold coffee-- the best (THE BEST, I say) cold coffee I've had- slight hints of chocolate and winter fruits linger within... wow. VERY smooth and creamy- a dream come true! OUTSTANDING beer. I wish I would have picked up more than a single... well, this beer alone is enough to make me go to the beer store tomorrow =)

Draught at the Library Alehouse, Santa Monica, Ca. 6/20/08. Opaque creamy tan head, thick lacing. Rich creamy malt aroma with a milk chocolatey and oatmeal taste and aroma, nice smooth with little char or bitterness.

Bottle. Pours a deep brown with a light tan head. Flavors are light prune, some toasted malt. Also a hint of a hop bitterness. Solid oatmeal stout.

Bottle. Poured black with a thick tan head. Aroma of oats and barley. Medium body with malt, chocolate but not much oats. Light finish. with mild oatmeal notes.

very dark stout. toasty sweet malts with a hoppy fruit edgeand a syrupy sweet finish.. chewy soft palate. very nice oatmeal stout.

It is so bloody hot, yet I desire multiple oatmeal stouts! Glad I tried this one. Well done from a pitch black oil pour to the bittersweet odor of coffee and chocolate. Nice sweet maltiness on the tomgue. Semi-sweet Chocolate finish.